SchwartzReport: Micro-Plastics Invade Water and Food — Major Emergent Threat to Human Health & All Systems Dependent on Water Flow

Once again we see in this report, the latest on the Plastic Waste Trend SR has been following for some years, what wretched excess uncontrolled by any shred of common sense is doing to the Earth. What is becoming clearer year by year is that the micro-particles of plastic produced by the world ocean’s constant …

Berto Jongman: Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists

Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists Regulations on pesticides have failed to prevent poisoning of almost all habitats, international team of scientists concludes The world’s most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessment of …

Yoda: Food Start-Ups Go After True Cost Reductions — Huge, Huge, Huge…

Right thing, doing finally. The Next Startup Craze: Food 2.0 Silicon Valley investors and startups are trying to improve our food. Do they bring anything to the table? By Ted Greenwald MIT Technology Review May 7, 2014 EXTRACT: Hampton Creek Foods and other startups have big dreams of restructuring the food supply so that it …

Berto Jongman: Linking Climate, Food Prices, & Revolution

Chinese Drought, Wheat, and the Egyptian Uprising: How a Localized Hazard became Globalized Did climate change play an indirect role in the political upheavals that rocked Egypt in 2011? Absolutely, says Troy Sternberg. As he sees it, a once-in-a-century drought in China dramatically reduced global wheat supplies and sent prices skyrocketing in the world’s largest …

SchwartzReport: Lies About Food and the One Truth – Processed Food = Poison

This is upsetting news but good news, and excellent science. The strength of science is its capacity for self-correction. And this is a good example. I completely agree with the observation: “The crucial phrase ‘avoid processed food’ appears nowhere in government nutritional guidelines, yet this is the most concise way to sum up in practical …

Eagle: Food Costs Soar – Revolution in the Air

Food Costs Soar Following Severe Worldwide Drought Food prices are expected to see their biggest annual increase in the past three years thanks mostly to devastating drought conditions all over the world. Dry conditions mean poor crop production; poor crop production means fewer livestock; and fewer livestock means higher prices for meats and dairy at …